A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar
Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition
with Commentary

J 2015

A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary

ZBÍRAL, David

Basic information

Original name

A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary

Authors

ZBÍRAL, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Graeco-Latina Brunensia, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 1803-7402

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Digitální knihovna FF MU

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00080864

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

katarství; kataři; Církev Desenzana; Albanenses; středověká hereze; biblická exegeze; mudroslovná literatura; mudrosloví; Starý zákon; kompilace; Liber de duobus principiis; edice

Keywords in English

Catharism; Cathars; Desenzano Church; Albanenses; medieval heresy; biblical exegesis; sapiential books; wisdom literature; Old Testament; compilation; Liber de duobus principiis; edition

Abstract

V originále

The manuscript J II 44, held by the National Central Library of Florence (Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Conventi soppressi, ms. J II 44, also known under the shelf mark I II 44), contains several theological treatises originating in the heterodox milieu of mid-thirteenth-century Lombard Cathars from the Desenzano Church who were also called Albanenses. The main works in the manuscript – The Liber de duobus principiis and the Florence Ritual – were competently edited by Antoine Dondaine and Christine Thouzellier in the 1930s and 1970s. However, smaller pieces, additions, and marginalia in the manuscript have attracted less attention. Some of them remain unpublished and have passed almost unnoticed in recent scholarship. Probably the most interesting of these unpublished parts is a compilation from Old Testament sapiential books on fol. 51v-53r. This article provides an edition of this piece with an introduction and commentary explaining its interest. The compilation is by no means a result of the haphazard copying of biblical passages. Quite to the contrary, it shows careful and focused theological work. Albeit written down and most probably also compiled by the Cathar redactor of the Florence manuscript, this collection of quotes departs from what we know about Catharism, and serves as a warning against interpreting Catharism as a theological system limited to dualism, soteriology, and the criticism of the Catholic Church. No less importantly, however, this sapiential compilation and the Florence manuscript in general also help us to avoid the other extreme: interpreting Catharism merely as a popular movement with virtually no elements of theological learning.

Links

GAP401/12/0657, research and development project

Name: Prameny ke studiu nesouhlasných náboženských hnutí ve středověkém západním křesťanství se zaměřením na katarství

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Sources for the Study of Dissenting Religious Movements in Western Medieval Christianity with Special Focus on Catharism

Citovat

ZBÍRAL, David. A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary. Graeco-Latina Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, vol. 20, No 1, p. 149-173. ISSN 1803-7402.

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ZBÍRAL, David. A Compilation from Old Testament Sapiential Books in the Cathar Manuscript of the Liber de duobus principiis: Critical Edition with Commentary. \textit{Graeco-Latina Brunensia}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, vol.~20, No~1, p.~149-173. ISSN~1803-7402.

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